Feelings

Emotions and Art

The idea of using art to explore the human condition rather than the divine was a significant departure from the predominantly religious artwork that preceded this secular revelation. In this program, Matthew Collings seeks the first glimmerings of humanist art in the Italian Renaissance-particularly in the works of Giotto and Leonardo da Vinci. He also contrasts two 18th-century artists who, in diametrically opposed ways, expressed this new sense of human potential, whether noble or monstrous: Jacques-Louis David and Francisco Goya.